From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk Subject: Diskette revival Date: 9 Feb 1993 22:13:15 GMT
I use a Sun workstation to make up multivolume tar files to take home.
Although this mostly works ok, the suns have a habbit of making disekettes
unreadable after a few uses. At this point the Suns will refuse to read/write
the disks and linux will give some floppy error.
The only solution I have for this is to boot DOS and run revive diskette from
within the norton 6.0 disk tools. Generally the diskette is then ok, and the
data on it can be read without error.
1) Does anyone know how/what the norton revive diskette does.
2) If 1) then do the necessary ioctls exist under linux?
3) Why does Sun ship such shi^H^H^H terrible floppy drives/floppy drivers?